accrue

English

/əˈkɹuː/, /ə.ˈkɹu/

verb
Definitions
  • (intransitive) To increase, to rise
  • (intransitive) to reach or come to by way of increase; to arise or spring up because of growth or result, especially as the produce of money lent.
  • (intransitive) To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
  • (transitive) to accumulate
  • (intransitive) To become an enforceable and permanent right.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English acrewen borrowed from Old French acreue, acreüe derived from Latin accrēsco (increase) root from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (horn, grow, feed, dirty, raven, become bigger, grey, top, plait, weave, gray color, crow, head, rope, dark).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*ḱer-

Gloss

horn, grow, feed, dirty, raven, become bigger, grey, top, plait, weave, gray color, crow, head, rope, dark

Concept
Semantic Field

The body

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Kanji

頭

Emoji
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